I feel we should have moved to a tech that doesn't suffer from burn-in by now, or perhaps that's just planned obselescence.

Wrinkly:

I feel we should have moved to a tech that doesn't suffer from burn-in by now, or perhaps that's just planned obselescence.

The worse for it are plasma TV's. I had a friend over once who decided to leave the channel on a radio station for 8 hours. Every time I turned channels it was still there!

Ghosty:

The worse for it are plasma TV's. I had a friend over once who decided to leave the channel on a radio station for 8 hours. Every time I turned channels it was still there!

Reminds me of this 😀 [spoiler] https://i.imgur.com/eVubO.png [/spoiler]

Ghosty:

The worse for it are plasma TV's. I had a friend over once who decided to leave the channel on a radio station for 8 hours. Every time I turned channels it was still there!

That's weird I've been running my Samsung plasma for around 10 years now and never had any burn in and a coworker with the same TV only has the small tree house logo burned in the bottom corner after years of his kids watching tree house and even then it's very faint

icedman:

That's weird I've been running my Samsung plasma for around 10 years now and never had any burn in and a coworker with the same TV only has the small tree house logo burned in the bottom corner after years of his kids watching tree house and even then it's very faint

Depends on the brightness/contrast settings I guess. Or the picture on the screen at the time. It might be possible to have a dual layer screen, the bottom half being LCD?

Ghosty:

Depends on the brightness/contrast settings I guess. Or the picture on the screen at the time. It might be possible to have a dual layer screen, the bottom half being LCD?

i worked for the company that developed Plasma (and had the highest rated TV's of all time) there has never been a dual layer plasma w/ lcd as that defeats the purpose. LCD is/was/will always be inferior (EXCEPT q-oled which IS a hybrid product) to plasma - except for the burn-in (and power efficiency). OLED has a far lower incidence of burn-in than Plasma, so much so it's no longer a problem for home use. and the fact that they are using it for commercial displays means it's no longer an issue at all. this product was all over CES and they had massive bendable panels and panels built into kitchen cabinetry. all very "Blade Runner". but a bendable 42" is oh-so-very well suited to home use and is asking for that corner of the room to be made use of.